8433.90.50.10 - Road wheels 🖩

This HTS category, 8433.90.50.10, specifically covers road wheels designed as parts for machinery classified under heading 8433. Heading 8433 encompasses harvesting or threshing machinery, including straw or fodder balers, grass or hay mowers, and machines for cleaning, sorting, or grading agricultural produce. Therefore, the components classified here are essential moving parts of these agricultural machines that facilitate their locomotion or support their operational movement on the ground.

It is important to distinguish this category from its sibling, 8433.90.50.25, which pertains to parts of haying machines and balers. While both fall under the "parts of other mowers, harvesting machines and threshing machines" umbrella, 8433.90.50.10 is more broadly defined to include road wheels for a wider array of machinery within heading 8433, beyond just those specifically involved in haying or baling operations. The category 8433.90.50.45, "Other," serves as a residual for parts that do not fit into the more specific road wheel classification.

As this is a leaf node within the HTS structure, there are no further subcategories to introduce. Classification under 8433.90.50.10 is definitive for road wheels that are identifiable as integral components of machines covered by heading 8433, excluding those specifically designated for haying machines and balers or those that fall into a general "other" residual category. The focus remains on the function and origin of the road wheel as a spare part or component for the specified agricultural machinery.